Interesting. I’m a fledgeling author, and I’ve made a conscious effort not only to include roughly equal amounts of male and female characters, but to avoid some of the more obvious pitfalls that men writing women seem to fall into. (The Dresden Files books spring to mind - very enjoyable pop fantasy for the most…

A union wouldn’t help in this case - what are they gonna do, negotiate more money into Crytek’s pockets? With whom? For what?

That’s what I was thinking while I watched it. I mean, I’ve only seen the first two and skipped the rest because they were pretty meh, but... wasn’t this franchise about illegal racing?

This is amazing, why shop at Amazon when you have genuine people in this world that you can continue to help keep a job.

That’s such a cool idea. It would be pretty easy to convert to a semi-universal accessory, too: strip it down to just the buttons and the surrounding plastic, then add a couple of spring-loaded arms (like the ones in universal car mounts) that clamp onto the phone’s sides. Maybe you could offer different controller…

Thanks for the thought-out reply.

Thousands of hours of work in this industry is my experience. It doesn’t make me an expert (which again, I never claimed in the first place), but it does make my opinion informed and relevant. You keep trying to deny that with no evidence on your part, so I won’t do your work for you, I’ll just tell you that that’s my…

I never said I was an expert, or that I was smart, or even that I thought I was. You kept saying that in a fairly sad attempt to undermine me. (Honestly “bro,” if being able to string sentences together is your litmus test for a genius, I can see why you’re having so much trouble here.) See also: fedoras, neckbeards,…

If you don’t have anything else compelling to add, you can just say so. Resorting to memes and 4chan-grade insults is, well, childish. Fedoras? Really? Next you’ll tell me I’ve lost the game.

“He did delete a channel that belongs to him” is intellectual dishonesty. If someone with a 50-million sub channel says he’s going to delete it, everyone knows what’s meant, and he played on that expectation. Hell, it’s built right into the statement: “I’ll delete my channel at 50 million” doesn’t refer to the other ch…

This seems like one of those games with the power to make me feel really bad about myself for having fun with it. Like a Skyrim quicksave rampage, but infinitely more cruel.

I’d really prefer a blanket halt on coverage, but I can see where you’re coming from. Failing that, covering him in the tabloid manner he richly deserves (only mentioned briefly when his antics actually effect other people) would do. The rest of the time his manufactured drama can stay on YouTube where it belongs.

Some of us (more than a hundred readers of this article, by the current count) would appreciate a standard of reporting that excludes video trolls. This is the equivalent of the “Letters to the Editor” column, from those newspapers you’re probably too young to remember. You’re so tolerant that you don’t mind seeing…

I get the gist, “bro.” I understand that reporting on this meaningless drivel is profitable, as is the back-and-forth in the comments. The idea of advertising-driven content isn’t complicated, it’s been around for the better part of a century.

If you can’t see the difference between a game trailer and a literal troll campaign (it’s in the title if you’re confused), then I can see why you’re not upset that someone like this gets free exposure for doing almost nothing. It’s all about entertainment, after all, actual substance be damned. Enjoy your…

So it’s okay to lie to people if it’s “for the lolz.” Even if that lie earns you measurable income. That’s a ridiculous, enabling position to take.

This “exaggeration” came with the instructions to increase his own followers, with the implicit “reward” of having his channel deleted. (I didn’t do it, by the way, because I figured this is exactly how he’d respond.) Joke or no joke, he lied, he did it for personal gain, and he achieved his goal. This kind of…

Kotaku can choose to have standards even if Kjellberg doesn’t. Refusing to be manipulated is best for the site and the readers, regardless of the occasional flash in the pan YouTube drama.

It was a joke in the sense that those awful April Fool’s pranks are jokes. “My mother died.” “Oh man, I’m so sorry for your loss.” “Ha! She’s not really dead! What a fool you are!”